2008/11/25 narendra sisodiya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > * Your experience in both tool. ?
I am not well versed in either of the two but I had an opportunity similar to yours. I am including my replies below on those points which I have got experienced. > * is feature wise OOo "calc" is not better then Excel ? Depends on the features that are needed. So, it may be so for some but for many it doesn't matter because they never make use of those features. > * will a "Excel user " face any problem in migration.? Yes, the mind set and habits. That's the biggest problem IMO. Just the idea of using something alien is repulsive enough for many. And for many more they cannot adjust to the 'new ways' of doing things. It's true of migrating from any one product to another. For example the keyboard short cuts may differ. One problem I see almost all excel users complain is not being able to change margins in print preview mode. But, with some push from the 'higher ups', helping hand from experienced OpenOffice users/experts and a period of regular usage building up familiarity is what's needed in most cases. One case where I came across where I had stumbled was when the company was using a custom made macro for converting figures into text for the currency value they obtained in the total field. So, now this function did not work in OpenOffice. Looking around I did find a macro which could do this but unfortunately it could only handle values upto 10000. Playing around a bit with it, I got it to work with their function but I couldn't get it to handle values higher than 21000 or some such value for a reason unknown to me. Maybe someone better in programming could have taken it further and would have been successful in implementing it. -- I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches. --... _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
